Two-minute Time Lord
- Description:
- Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC ' s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who. We ' ll try to keep this context in mind as we review episodes, comment on the news of the moment, and otherwise pontificate: Doctor Who is not FOR a thirtysomething podcaster. It ' s for that nine-year-old behind the sofa. But his or her mum and dad have been invited along for the ride, as are those of us who were kids when Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat. And we ' ll keep it to two minutes, because we ' re ALL in a hurry.
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- Episodes:
- 352
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:07:14
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:35:17
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 1 days, 18 hours, 27 minutes and 8 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 30 April 2010 (2:46am GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 24 October 2022 (3:54am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 12 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 44 seconds
Two-minute Time Lord Episodes
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2MTL 472: "That is a good look on you, Professor"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 24 secondsOn great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.
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2MTL 471: Long Time Ago When We Was Fam
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 33 secondsBringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor…
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2MTL 470: Something Old, Something New
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 53 secondsIs RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week's announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today's announcement of Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and the merits of old mistakes vs. new mistakes.
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2MTL 469: TIME DILATION: The Streaming Future of Doctor Who
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 19 minutes and 52 secondsJason Snell, co-host of Downstream on Relay FM and head of The Incomparable network of pop culture podcasts, joins me for a look at Doctor Who's future in a world where TV networks struggle to stay relevant and Netflix is losing a bunch of subscribers. The conversation is a "follow-out" from recent discussions on Radio Free Skaro. (Apologies to Jason because I overprocessed his audio.)
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2MTL 468: "Legend of the Sea Devils" and Feeling Closer to "Fine"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 36 secondsWhen you're the sort of person for whom the meaning of "fine" turns from "good enough" to not so much, and maybe you start surrendering to pessimism, even after an honestly revolutionary conversation between Yaz and the Doctor.
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2MTL 467: Parsing Age, Rose/Ten and Thasmin
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 secondsThe most tortured podcast episode title I've ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for "Legend of the Sea Devils."
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2MTL 466: New Year's Hangover
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 54 secondsThoughts from the heart about a New Year's special that was a small story, coming at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with the last two years–and how I hope to look at Doctor Who anew following a return to Gallifrey One.
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2MTL 465: Re: Flux ("The Vanquishers")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 8 secondsI'm not entirely sure who "The Vanquishers" applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a little extra time to think about Chapter 6, and Flux as a whole, and why I ultimately think this effort to put eight pounds of plot into a six-pound bag succeeded despite itself.
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2MTL 464: Steeling for the Finale ("Survivors of the Flux")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 3 secondsTomorrow's the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.
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2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 52 secondsRecapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from "Blink"? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.
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2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 48 secondsSpace opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall's arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)
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2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 37 secondsIn which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.
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2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic (The Halloween Apocalypse)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 seconds
Now this is a story all about how. My life got flipped turned upside down.
Big, bold, and entirely un-self-contained, Doctor Who: Flux's first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show's first modern miniseries.
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2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes and 9 secondsNicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.
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2MTL 458: Pregenerating a Showrunner
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 32 secondsNo one saw that coming. Russell T Davies's first era of Doctor Who is my favorite. What are some of the traps to avoid with his upcoming return as showrunner?
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2MTL 457: About Noel Clarke
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 4 secondsFrom the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women
You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor.
In an article for the UK Guardian on April 29, 2021, journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne painstakingly gathered and reported 20 allegations from women of being abused by actor, producer, and one-time Doctor Who recurring cast member Noel Clarke.
The women stepped forward following the announcement that he would receive an award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema that month from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In breaking their silence, Kale and Osborne write, the women “allege Clarke is a serial abuser of women, using his power in the industry to prey on and harass female colleagues, and sometimes bully those who fall out of favour.” Following the article’s publication, BAFTA suspended the award and Clarke’s membership.
Any Doctor Who fans who want to venture an opinion about Noel Clarke should read this article first. I’ve linked it on social and it’s in the show notes. The article is damning. You have 20 women, either anonymously for their protection or on the record, sharing their stories of being groped, harassed, and humiliated. A reputable news organization simply does not go there without dotting every I and crossing every T, not when they’d be the likely target of a libel suit.
I once shared a stage with Clarke, interviewing him at Long Island Who. I would never have picked up on him being predatory. But that’s how patriarchy works, hiding in plain sight. Since then, longstanding stories of other Doctor Who actors’ behavior on set have surfaced. Some of them, I didn’t want to believe. I’d read an account of an actress colleague giving one of them a pass for being a lad, or something like that, and maybe I’d tell myself that they all thought that it was in harmless fun, and when that actor returned in a guest role, I’d put the uncomfortable thought away.
Easy for me to do, of course. Women, BIPoC people, queer people, they know better than me. They routinely do the work of distinguishing the art from the artist, and judging what to keep and what to throw away, because they don’t have the privilege of living in a world where the worst thing that happens to them when a popular actor is revealed as a predator is that their enjoyment of a TV show is reduced.
My favorite pop culture properties, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, all have an expressly idealistic point of view. They’re humanistic, pro-freedom. They’re about being freaking kind. And in the last couple of years, there have been far too many examples, within these fandoms and even within these franchises, of people who supposedly identify with these ideals failing to walk the walk.
I don’t always live up to those ideals myself, but I’m trying to do it today. You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor. And especially, don’t focus on how his actions affect Doctor Who the franchise, or Doctor Who the fandom. That’s centering your own feelings. There are 20 women—at least—who deserve greater consideration. And we have fandom cultures, and convention spaces, and writers’ rooms, and soundstages, where predatory behavior, patriarchy, racism, and anti-queer bias continue to reign. I’m going to try to put better focus on challenging those wrongs—and less on my own comfort.
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2MTL 456: Long Time Passing
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 secondsTen months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When "Revolution of the Daleks" was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?
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2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 19 seconds"Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?" After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there's no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006's "Fear Her."
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2MTL 454: It's Always Time to Engage
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 34 secondsWhy is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who's politics?
- Constance Gibbs: "For Black Doctor Who fans, the TARDIS is a legendary, loaded image"
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2MTL 453: Within Our Confession Dials
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 16 secondsThere's been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks such as Chris Chibnall and Emily Cook. But 2015's "Heaven Sent" seems particularly relevant as well…
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2MTL 452: WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 Makes a House Call (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 31 secondsGraeme Burk, co-author with Robert Smith? of WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2, stops by to talk about slow-cooker episode criticism in a time of lightning-fast hot takes (not that I'm familiar with that at all) and staying connected with Doctor Who in a stay-at-home world.
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2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 14 secondsSuddenly, there's much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new "retcon" to the Doctor's past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that's gone before on television. Let's talk about a challenge to The Master–and to Doctor Who fans themselves.
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2MTL 450: Point of No Return
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 29 secondsExecution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
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2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 0 secondsOn emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
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2MTL 448: The Most Important Story
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 48 secondsSometimes, the plot isn't the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
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2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 49 secondsA mostly solid story by McTighe and Chibnall, but I'm REALLY here for a Doctor-ish Yaz and a Doctor-ish Ryan.
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2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 secondsThat sound you heard was a podcaster's brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from "Fugitive of the Judoon" into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.
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2MTL 445: A Two-fisted Tale of Tesla
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 secondsWould you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that's just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio)
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2MTL 444: Percolating on "Orphan 55"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 1 secondIt took longer than two minutes to explain–heck, longer than six days to figure out–why "Orphan 55" confounded me.
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2MTL 443: Looking Backward Too Soon
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 27 seconds"Spyfall Part Two" was a strong conclusion to the opening Series 12 two-parter, but there was one creative decision I'm wary of, and another that really should have been done differently.
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2MTL 442: Three Questions About "Spyfall"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 23 secondsChris Chibnall and company knocked the first episode of Series 12 out of the park but there's a caution: where there is a Part One, there must always be a Part Two. Here are three things to look for in the conclusion of "Spyfall" on January 5.
Sacha Dhawan as You-Know-Who
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2MTL 441: Advent
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 35 secondsCelebrating the impending advent of Series 12, and also the best fandom advent calendar ever: Radio Free Skaro's Fluid Links on YouTube.
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2MTL 440: Annualized
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 40 secondsBehold, The Dr Who Annual 1977 in all its bonkers glory.
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2MTL 439: Throwback Review of "Love and Monsters"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 3 secondsThere's not a lot of distance between covering ELO songs with a band of Tenth Doctor investigators, and enjoying Doctor Who fandom culture. You just have to watch out for the Abzorbaloffs in both places.
Check out Reality Bomb Live in New York for 2019, occasionally invaded by me.
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2MTL 438: Titan's Take on Thirteen
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 32 secondsAre you stuck with me in the between-series Doctor Who doldrums? Check out the now-complete first year of Thirteenth Doctor stories by the top-notch creative team of Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Roberta Ingranata, and Enrica Erin Angiolini! ALSO: Please join me in supporting Who For Schools!
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2MTL 437: Guilt, Shame, Obligation, and Regeneration
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 33 secondsPrompted by Erik's remembrance of Terrance Dicks in 2MTL 435, some thoughts about the modern moral character of the Doctor: how Doctors 9-12 changed the game from Terrance Dicks's model, and how the Thirteenth Doctor changes the game again.
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2MTL 436: Eccleston on Eccleston
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 36 secondsA Mail on Sunday article previews Christopher Eccleston's revelation in his new book I Love the Bones of You: he lived with mental health issues while launching Doctor Who as the Ninth Doctor.
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Erik Stadnik on Terrance Dicks's Legacy
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 43 seconds"Like all truly great writers, Terrance Dicks is a moralist." So begins Erik Stadnik of The Writers' Room: The Outer Limits and The Real McCoy podcast, the week after the legendary Doctor Who script editor and writer passed away.
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2MTL 434: Shannon Sudderth on Random Encounters
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 25 secondsShannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental.
Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).
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2MTL 433: Centering Yasmin Khan
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 13 secondsI loved Series 11 but one of its areas of improvement is emphatically Yaz. What needs to happen to give this underused character her turn in the spotlight?
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2MTL 432: Kayti Burt on Rose Tyler, Class, and Being Invited Into a TARDIS
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 43 secondsDen of Geek US's Kayti Burt saw herself in Rose Tyler, and watched as the TARDIS changed Rose just as Kayti's experiences–and her slowly growing distance from her working-class background–changed her.
(You can listen to Kayti and Chip every week, along with Jen Burt and Warren Frey from Radio Free Skaro, on the new THE EXPANSE rewatch podcast, "A Legitimate Salvage" on The Incomparable Network.)
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2MTL 431: Doctor Who's New Home
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 47 secondsWhile Doctor Who will never become so obscure that it can only be found with a hunting dog and a Ouija board, Chip is definitely on the pessmistic side when it comes to Doctor Who's next streaming home: HBO Max.
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2MTL 430: Joy Piedmont on Dating and Doctor Who
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 40 secondsIf you're searching for a Significant Other, how important is it that they be into the same things you are? If you're as immersed in Doctor Who fandom as Reality Bomb co-producer Joy Piedmont is, should a potential partner get into Doctor Who as well? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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2MTL 429: Doctor Who and Peak Pop Culture
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 13 secondsFans of every other franchise in the world seemed to have a lot to celebrate at San Diego Comic Con. Doctor Who wasn't part of the hype machine–so how IS our beloved time-travelling show doing these days?
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2MTL 428: Nicole Hill on Danny Pink
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 30 secondsWelcome to our first guest essayist of the new 2MTL! I met Nicole Hill in person for the first time at the 2019 Gallifrey One convention. It was a pleasure to talk with her then, and soon after I followed her on Twitter only soon after to read a couple of epic threads she wrote about one Danny Pink.
Nicole is the voice behind Black TARDIS. She writes about the show from her Black, queer, female perspective. You can follow her @BlackTARDIS on Twitter and visit her at blackinspaceandti.me
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2MTL 427: Regeneration
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 59 secondsWelcome to the new Two-minute Time Lord Podcast: alternating essays by Chip and–hopefully!–a constellation of new perspectives from the Doctor Who community.
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2MTL 426: Throwback Review of "The Satan Pit"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 8 secondsWe're back, and we're picking up where we left off…
…sort of! Join us next week for a glimpse at the new 2MTL!
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2MTL 425: Forward
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 0 secondsA Christmas Eve reflection on what it means to let go of even a beloved Doctor, in order to embrace the future. (I now podcast about Doctor Who every week with Alyssa Franke at This Week in Time Travel on The Incomparable podcast network. Please follow us on Twitter or Facebook!)
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2MTL 424: Wimbledon Nerves
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 15 secondsThe balloon's going up. Sunday after Wimbledon, we'll know who the Thirteenth Doctor is. Here are 120 seconds (more or less) of thoughts as fandom holds its breath.
I now podcast about Doctor Who every week with Alyssa Franke at This Week in Time Travel on The Incomparable podcast network. Please check us out!
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2MTL 423: Because There Are (No) Limits
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 22 secondsOriginally aired on This Week in Time Travel 5: Chip was recently asked why he gravitated toward/obsesses over Doctor Who above all other fandoms. Turns out, it's personal.